Pualani Case + Karenna Gore -The Original Instructions
We are living in extraordinary times – deeply challenging times for the survival of life on earth. Yet emerging at this time are channels of information, offering all kinds of doorways to a better understanding of how all life is inextricably connected. We are learning that people can connect across space and time in ways we would never have thought possible.
Bearers of this living ancestral wisdom – what some call “The Original Instructions” are among us, and it is urgent that we pay attention to this message for humanity.
In this first program in the Karma series, Karenna Gore looks at two channels of wisdom transmission. With Native Hawaiian Pua Case whose relationship to a sacred mountain has informed her teachings of traditional knowledge and ways; and with Shamanic Healing author Itzhak Beery who relates a dramatic example of a Midwestern woman finding herself being able to speak in an Amazonian language she does not understand, relaying a message privileged only to shamans. Hawaiian singer/songwriter Häwane Rios will join Pua on stage for a concluding performance.
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Pualani Case was born and raised on the Island of Hawai’i surrounded by high mountains and fresh waters. Pua’s life path has led her to become a Kumu Hula, a teacher of the ways, culture, and traditions of the kanaka maoli, or native peoples of Hawai’i. With a degree in Hawaiian Language and culture, and a teaching degree in Social Studies, interwoven with the traditional teachings from her kupuna, or elders, Pua has integrated ‘Ike Hawai’i, or Hawaiian knowledge and lessons, into the public school system and community for over 30 years. She and ‘ohana, or family, are active as spiritual and cultural leaders, and have traveled around the world to address the challenges facing sacred places and lifeways of the people of HawaiʻI and beyond. These include the movement to protect the sacred mountain Mauna Kea on the Island of Hawai’i, efforts to restore salmon to the McCloud River in New Zealand, and the Standing Rock protests in North Dakota.